Saturday, Jun. 15, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

VCU Health Office of Inclusive Excellence and the VCU Health Arts in Health Care will host a free family-friendly cultural festival on 12th Street between Broad and Marshall streets. The event celebrates the cultures and backgrounds of the VCU Health team and its patients. Free food will be available for the first 200 people who attend.

For more information, contact Adam Austin at acaustin@vcu.edu or visit https://www.vcuhealth.org/news/inaugural-cultural-festival-to-be-held-at-vcu-medical-center.

Monday, Jun. 17, 2024 at noon

Learn to break writing into manageable chunks and how to avoid procrastination. Register for the Zoom link at the following URL.

For more information, contact Trey Burnart Hall at hallbr@vcu.edu or visit https://writing.vcu.edu/calendar/.

Supervisors of student staff are invited to participate in a research study about the experience of supervising students. Interested individuals who qualify and participate may enter for a chance to win a pair of Beats headphones. The event is sponsored by VCU Career Services through the VCU Work+ team. Complete the following URL to indicate your interest in participating.

For more information, contact Jonathan Fuller at fullerjd2@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/edckVL1y4gXxjyUf6.

Participants are sought who can attend three 90-minute sessions, are open to sharing their experience and willing to photograph their "voice." Participants will be paid $25 for each session. Participants must be a first-generation student and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

For more information, contact Traci Wike, Ph.D., M.S.W., at twike@vcu.edu or (804) 420-2715 or visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7PaJRoSFKC0-hi0ExxeSIgx5XF2s19r/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113949600429879309054&rtpof=true&sd=true.

We are currently recruiting participants for a motor learning study. This research is being done to investigate how you learn new movements. You will be asked to complete an MRI scan while wearing an electrode cap and playing a virtual joystick game. You must be right-handed and between the ages of 18 and 40 to participate. Compensation of $20 is available for your participation, and the study takes about one hour.

For more information, contact Narges Yaghoubi at yaghoubin@vcu.edu.

Individuals between the ages of 18 and 30 who identify as Black or African American are invited to participate in a research study examining the effect of acute and chronic stress on cardiovascular and inflammation responses to an acute mental challenge. Raffle drawings for financial compensation will be conducted. This study will take place at 500 Academic Centre on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus. Principal Investigator: Lee Franco, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences. For more information, contact The KHS Healthy Heart Lab at the following email address.

For more information, contact Healthy Heart Lab at healthyheart@vcu.edu.